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Sun City West performing venue to be demolished

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:00:00 -0400

PHOENIX - When it opened 33 years ago, the Sundome in Sun City West was the largest single-story performing-arts center in the country.

Jack Johnson pulls off the switch at Bonnaroo

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:41:13 -0400

MANCHESTER, Tennessee - Nicely done, Jack Johnson.

Kottke, Alm among Minn. music hall inductees

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:04:07 -0400

NEW ULM, Minnesota - Guitarist Leo Kottke and country and rock singer Mary Jane Alm are among this year's inductees into the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame.

Musicians lobby G-8 leaders with protest songs

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:10:05 -0400

LONDON - Sting, Green Day, Ed Sheeran and Mumford & Sons are among musicians raising their voices against poverty by re-recording classic protest songs.

Jonah Lehrer has deal for new book

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:37:14 -0400

NEW YORK - Jonah Lehrer, the best-selling author who has acknowledged using fake quotes and had two books pulled, has reached agreement on a new book.

Cover songs: Homage or irksome marketing ploy?

Thu, 30 May 2013 13:58:59 -0400

LOS ANGELES - There are about 600 versions of Adele's Oscar-winning song "Skyfall" on the Spotify subscription music service. Not one of them features Adele.

Top stars square off for summer tour dollars

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:01:40 -0400

All anyone's been talking about are those aged wonders The Rolling Stones and their 50th-anniversary tour, but there's so much more happening on the road this summer.

Darius Rucker rides 'Wagon Wheel' to top of charts

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:16:25 -0400

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Darius Rucker is a fan of Old Crow Medicine Show, but says he didn't really get what was so infectious about the string band's signature hit "Wagon Wheel" at first.

Criteria Recording Studios founder Emerman dies

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:56:19 -0400

MIAMI - Mack Emerman, the founder of Criteria Recording Studios where acts including Eric Clapton, James Brown and the Bee Gees made some of their most famous records, has died after a long illness. He was 89.

In Coens' Cannes hit, Oscar Isaac gets his break

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:57:44 -0400

CANNES, France - Joel and Ethan Coen had almost given up on casting the lead for their film "Inside Llewyn Davis." The part, a folk musician in early 1960s Greenwich Village, demanded the elusive combination of someone who could both carry a movie and perform the songs central to the film.